dhumpie
23-10-2006, 09:43 AM
Hey Guys,
Got this lil' beauty a couple of days ago on a whim as I was looking around for a nice Japanese made scope (60mm f/13.3 (800mm). Got is tested on the weekend with a hybrid diagonal and my suite of 1.25" eyepieces. Great sharp lil' scope, just a lil' too small for my current observing regime (would be an excellent double star, moon and planet scope). Its much better made than the current crop of cheapie chinese made scopes (everything is well built on this scope and everything is metal including the fork mount, the finder bracket and the head that attaches the fork mount to the wooden legs).
Comes with a 5x24 finder (strangely no crosshairs and very poor eye relieve), a terrestrial T18mm eyepiece, H12.5, H8 eyepieces and a plastic encased mirror star diagonal (all 0.965", all metal and japanese made too). The interesting thing about this scope is that is has knife edge baffles all the way down its white tube (even the finder looks to have lil baffles as well).
Planning to let it go for $70AUD, and the price includes postage within Australia. Let me know if you want photo's.
Cheers,
Darren,
Brisbane
p/s: In the interest of full disclosure, I measured the diameter of the objective and it was only 55mm, not the stated 60mm and it appears to be just coated.
Got this lil' beauty a couple of days ago on a whim as I was looking around for a nice Japanese made scope (60mm f/13.3 (800mm). Got is tested on the weekend with a hybrid diagonal and my suite of 1.25" eyepieces. Great sharp lil' scope, just a lil' too small for my current observing regime (would be an excellent double star, moon and planet scope). Its much better made than the current crop of cheapie chinese made scopes (everything is well built on this scope and everything is metal including the fork mount, the finder bracket and the head that attaches the fork mount to the wooden legs).
Comes with a 5x24 finder (strangely no crosshairs and very poor eye relieve), a terrestrial T18mm eyepiece, H12.5, H8 eyepieces and a plastic encased mirror star diagonal (all 0.965", all metal and japanese made too). The interesting thing about this scope is that is has knife edge baffles all the way down its white tube (even the finder looks to have lil baffles as well).
Planning to let it go for $70AUD, and the price includes postage within Australia. Let me know if you want photo's.
Cheers,
Darren,
Brisbane
p/s: In the interest of full disclosure, I measured the diameter of the objective and it was only 55mm, not the stated 60mm and it appears to be just coated.